Netanyahu's pledge to annex 30 percent of the West Bank The Arab League regards Netanyahu's statements as undermining the chance for peace, Arab ministers called it a dangerous development, Qatar criticised Israel, Turkey slammed the pledge as racist, Saudi Arabia called for an emergency meeting, the United Nations said the pledge had no legal effects... A few months ago student in London, an American, applauded the "normalisation process between some Gulf states and the Israeli state..." The Iraqi poet Mudhafar Al-Nawaab: Sons of a bitch A pigs' sty is cleaner than the cleanest among you Oh, subdued rulers And subdued people How dirty we are! How dirty we are! How dirty we are and we are proud of it! I exclude no one. Is a motherland ruled by royal thighs A motherland or a whorehouse? What is it called an Arab situation masturbating Before the peace processes And drinking with the villain? I scream at you Where is your pride? Are you Arabs
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51